July 2010
“How long has it been since someone touched part of you, other than your body?”
– T. Guillemets (via mayhemproject)
The James Franco Reading List →
“Men turn to pleasure when they are tired of seeking happiness. Hedonism is a...”
– (via mayhemproject)
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Andrew Bird - Coney Island Shuffle
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Celiac disease culprits found →
Researchers discovered gluten was an environmental cause of celiac disease 60 years ago.
“In the years since, the holy grail in celiac disease research has been to identify the toxic peptide components of gluten, and that’s what we’ve done,” Anderson said. “It changes the way that we understand celiac disease.”
In the study, 244 people with celiac disease...
“A story can always end happily by stopping at a cheerful moment.”
– Lanark — Alasdair Gray (via nruth)
Facebook prohibits the word ‘Palestinian’ →
unburyingthelead:
curate:the-semblance:
The folks at Palestinian Refugee ResearchNet thought they’d create a Facebook page only to discover: Facebook blocks the term “Palestinian”! (H/t Jillian C Cork.)
Are Palestinians the only group so blocked from making pages? Well, not really… after a little fiddling around, I discovered that al-Qaida Refugee ResearchNet and Nazi Refugee...
“Television is the way it is simply because people tend to be extremely similar...”
– David Foster Wallace, “E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction.”
(via booksinthekitchen)
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“Writers are entitled to their political opinions, and there are good political...”
– Elif Şafak
“From my grandmother, I learned, amongst many other things, one very precious...”
– Elif Şafak
feeling good // nina simone
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Borges, The Universe And The Infinite Library →
Great reading.
Since the Library is the Universe, nothing exists outside of it. So, the readers and the narrator are part of it. Can we ever fully understand something when we are not able to examine it as a whole? Like a fish that wants to understand the totality of the oceans, the librarians try in vain to decipher the mysteries of their world, unaware that all they can acquire is a partial...
glycerine // bush
Seen doctor this morning. Turns out I’m allergic to grains. And by grains, I mean a lot of things.
See no boundaries
To create patterns is natural. In fact, not only as designers, but also as humans, we make sense of a wild environment by taking haphazard shapes and concepts and giving them form and meaning. We categorize them: poster, website, building, typography, interactive, stone, and so on. Creating categories, then, gives our experiences boundaries.
For designers in this era, however, seeing boundaries...
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Ears by Teresa Milbrodt →
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For months, Zip has been asking me if he can use my face to advertise the tattoo parlor. He’s a good guy and never pressured me about it, but he’s mentioned the possibility from time to time. I’ve never been desperate enough to sell my picture before, but now I’ve got to figure out how to cover twice the usual rent plus make car payments and add to Jake’s college fund. So with Lee and...
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“They are encouraged to be collaborative. But the more people touch their work,...”
– The Ad Contrarian: Why Creatives Are Always Confused
“you live your life the way you like and I live my life the way I like, or we try...”
– (via mayhemproject)
Sevgili anneciğim ve babacığım,
Sizleri ve ezilen halklar adına mücadeleyi, erken bırakmak zorunda kaldığım için üzgünüm ama; bundan ve içinde bulunduğum durumdan dolayı hiçbir zaman pişmanlık duymadan ve şu kısa yaşamım içersinde hiçbir şahsi çıkar gözetmeden ezilen halklar adına verilen mücadelede yerimi almaya çalıştım ve bundan dolayı gurur duyuyorum.
Anneciğim ve babacığım; sizlere kısaca...
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